U.S. policy against North Korea has not helped ease tensions on the peninsula and the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics is an opportunity for change, a South Korean sports historian said Thursday.
Gwang Ok, a professor of physical education at Chungbuk National University who has researched the impact of Japanese colonialism on sports development, told UPI that South Koreans are welcoming détente because other measures have only strained relations.
I don't mean to appear pedantic, but tensions exist on the Korean peninsula because North Korea has repeatedly pledged to conquer South Korea, destroy Seoul, and is now building nuclear weapons capable of turning Seoul into a "sea of fire" as they've threatened.
America is actually standing shoulder-to-shoulder with South Korea--as America has since bleeding to preserve South Korean independence--to prevent North Korea from carrying out those threats against a free and prosperous South Korea.
But no, really, America is causing tensions that wouldn't exist if we would just quietly accept North Korean nuclear weapons without raising a fuss and just let the kids skate toward peace.
A change in North Korea's "sports history" trajectory is the key factor to consider. Good Lord.
Perhaps the trajectory of North Koreans executed by the regime is to eliminate those pockets of anti-sports trajectory badthink.
South Korea had been pretty solid in belatedly confronting North Korea's nuclear ambitions. But South Koreans have suddenly gotten stupid:
[Kim Jong-Un] recognizes that the Winter Olympic games in South Korea provides him with a perfect stage, a rare opportunity to promote his own propaganda and shape world opinion about him and his regime, at little cost to him. To make his strategy work, he needs a willing and foolish partner, and he quickly found one in South Korea’s President Moon Jae In.
I did worry about Moon. But he had been working with us. Now? Maybe he knows that we will attack if North Korea doesn't back down and Moon is getting desperate to stop the coming war to prevent North Korea from threatening America with long-range missiles.
It's somewhat comforting that the echelon above reality exists in South Korean academia, too. Why should America bear the sole burden of such stupidity?
